Hello to the World

If you ever wanted to say hello to someone from everywhere in the world, you would have to be able to say that in at least 2,700 languages. And if you wanted to say this to every person that’s alive, you would be greeting at least 6.5 billion people.

Now, it’s not entirely logical to think that one person could talk to that many people or know that many languages. Butinterpretersmay know many various languages, and may have to greet thousands of people daily.Monterey Language Services alone has interpreters in over 175 languages, enough to say hello to the vast majority of those 6.5 billion people.

Someone could be thinking: Why would it be necessary to be able to say hello in that many different languages? Well, consider someone with a role in customer service. Tourists from other countries still have stuff to buy, so they have to shop in stores here. Nothing is a better greeting than a simple hello in their native language. Also, it even just makes you sound smarter knowing many different languages.

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